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6:30pm Shooting Homicide in Columbia Heights, Shots Fired nearby later that evening


Bullet holes from shots fired around midnight at 11th and Harvard St, NW

From MPD:

“Members of the Third District and the Violent Crimes Branch are currently investigating a Homicide/Shooting that occurred at about 6:30 PM this evening in the 1300 block of Columbia Road, NW. An adult male was shot twice in the upper body. He was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.

If you, or anyone you know, has information regarding this crime, we ask that you call the Metropolitan Police Department’s Command Information Center at 202-727-9099.”

Multiple readers later reported shots fired around 12am at 11th and Harvard St, NW. One reader reported around midnight:

“11-14 shots fired just now in the vicinity of 11th and Harvard/Columbia.”

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